Press releases & announcements

7th July 2005

Appointment of Michael Fishwick

Michael Fishwick publishes internationally bestselling non-fiction as publishing director at HarperCollins, discovering great writers from William Dalrymple to Amanda Foreman, Katie Hickman to Paula Byrne. He has published immensely successful books by politicians from Baroness Thatcher, to Sir John Major and Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as mordant satirists and investigative journalists such as Francis Wheen, Tom Bower, Seymour Hersh and Richard Ingrams and memoirs from Fergal Keane, John Walsh and Karen Armstrong. His historians include Michael Burleigh, Lisa Jardine, Linda Colley, Patrick Bishop and Andrew Roberts, and his travel writers Philip Marsden, who won the Thomas Cook Award, and Eric Newby. He has a superb spectrum of biographers from Brenda Maddox to Adam Sisman to Bella Bathurst.

Recent awards include the Guardian First Book award for Armand Leroi’s groundbreaking Mutants and the Duff Cooper award for Mark Mazower’s marvellous Salonica. T.J. Binyon won the Samuel Johnson Award for his definitive Pushkin, and Aminatta Forna was runner-up for the same prize for her memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water.

A previous ‘Editor of the Year’, Michael Fishwick’s novel, Sacrifices, will be published by Jonathan Cape in March next year.

‘I am incredibly happy to be joining Bloomsbury, whose energy, creativity and flair I have admired since their outset, though of course sorry to be leaving HarperCollins where I have had many, many wonderful times and worked with fabulous authors and people. This is a tremendous and thrilling challenge and a wonderful team of people to join.’ – Michael Fishwick

‘We could not be happier. Michael is a distinguished and wonderful publisher whose dedication to his authors is second to none. We have long admired his ability to publish serious books into a general market: he will be a marvellous addition to our editorial team.’ – Alexandra Pringle, Editor-in-Chief, Bloomsbury Publishing

-ENDS-

For further information, please contact: